The business of entertainment is too important to be left to megacorps, pedophiles, and small-souled bugmen who delight only in forcing their ideas on others and demanding them to pay for the privilege.

/1
Every work of art, no matter how great or minor, builds upon the culture.

It is a conversation with the past, and sows the seeds for the future.

From culture springs the values and worldview that influence how you think, feel, perceive, act.

/2
Those who aim to control the culture, to decide who gets to be seen and who doesn't, want to control the past, present and future.

They want to control your soul.

/3
Own voices.

Diversity.

Queering.

Social justice.

These ideologies do not create a better world.

They assault beauty, goodness and truth, with the goal of perverting everything into ugliness, vice and deception.

/4
If they can make you see:

Ugliness as beauty

Vice as goodness

Lies as truth

They own your soul.

You become one of them.

/5
Dare you see yourself as a creator?

Gaze upon your works from the perspective of eternity.

Are you forging another link in the great chain of culture that stretches back to the mists of antiquity?

Are you casting a light unto the future?

Such is the great work of art.

/6
What is social justice in entertainment?

It is the perversion of the chain of culture, to sever your links to your past, subvert the works of the greats, and start anew from a Year Zero where SJWs rule.

It is spreading toxic miasma into the future to drown out the light.

/7
Truth. Beauty. Goodness.

The forces of Clown World seek to corrupt these, and with it, you and everyone around you.

In the face of such obscenity, such profanity, there is only one path left to sanity.

/8
Create.

With your hands, build a better world that honors the past and births a brighter tomorrow.

Be it in books, music, art, architecture, science, whatever it is you do, whatever it is your heart calls you to do, remember this.

/9
Truth.

Beauty.

Goodness.

With them you have the foundations of civilization.

Without them all nations shall crumble.

Orient yourself towards the transcendentals and work to manifest them in all things.

Thus we shall save the world.

/end

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The Chinese language section in my local bookstore instead uses to therm 修养励志.

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Among the hottest fiction trends today, and the genre I'm working on next.

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Highly-skilled warriors in a milieu of danger and respect. Adventure in exotic realms. A world where you can earn your place with your sword.

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